Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blessitt with his cross in St Peter’s Square, Rome, December 1979 - Edoardo Fornaciari/Getty Images Arthur Blessitt, who has died ...

The evangelist set a world record for longest pilgrimage and kept going for 43,340 miles. People had a lot of questions when they saw a hippie minister with slightly shaggy hair hauling a 12-foot ...

Arthur Blessitt, a onetime street preacher in Los Angeles who set off on a cross-country trek on Christmas Day in 1969 hauling a 12-foot cross to begin what became a more than 43,000-mile pilgrimage ...

Imagine what an inquisitive filmmaker like Errol Morris or Werner Herzog could have done with the peculiar true-life story of Los Angeles evangelist Arthur Blessitt, the self-proclaimed “Minister of ...

Arthur Blessitt, right, is a Mississippi-born evangelist who wanders the globe toting a 12-foot wooden cross on his shoulder. He's been doing it for 40 years, starting in Los Angeles where he had a ...

Arthur Blessitt is a Mississippi-born evangelist who wanders the globe toting a 12-foot wooden cross on his shoulder. He's been doing it for 40 years, starting in Los Angeles, where he had a Sunset ...

A one-week showing of "The Cross: The Arthur Blessitt Story" begins today at the AMC Loews Foothills Theatre, 7401 N. La Cholla Blvd. Blessitt's story begins in Los Angeles in the 1960s, when he ...

Island Smoothie owners Cheryl and Mark Neumann are showing “The Cross: The Arthur Blessitt Story” at 6:30 p.m. every Saturday night through Dec. 19.

Arthur Blessitt, whose fervent efforts to convert the hippies, freaks and addicts along Hollywood's Sunset Strip were just a prelude to his decision to carry a 110-pound wooden cross from Los Angeles ...